News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Lace on some sort of white finish il
worn in neck and sleeves.
The jersey is no more, speaking from
the point of view of fashion.
Cashmere is popular fabric, and i
is shown in all the new shades.
Earrings are again much worn but they
are an unobtrusive character in size.
Green pervades all sorts of fabrics anG
is ever present in all millinery fabrics fol
the early fall.
Velvet is still the standard material
for dressy millinery, and several novel
ties are shown.
The checks in new colors are quite
stylish and are to be fabric much liked
by young girls.
There are many mixed fabrics for outer
wraps this season. many of them quite
bright and pretty.
Embroidered velvet is used for the
corsages of many plain gowns, giving
dressy effects simply.
Sleeves to cut garments are less tight
than usual, and in some stylish garments
they are wide at the wrist
Bonnets of soft, pliable felt are made
on frame in folds and pla!ts in man
ner similar to those of cloth.
Front bands or draped panels appear
upon many of the new dresses in place of
the side panels so long in vogue.
Among the new wooden dress materials
are very dark diagonals of rough surfaces
which have various colors blended.
Many of the new ostrich tips arc
changeable, or else speckled with a
darker shade on contrasting color.
Wide galloons and bra.ds are generally
used. Two colors are sometimes woven
in these trimmings with good effect.
An Eckford (Mich) young lady raked
102 acres of stubble in week, besides
taking lessons in elocution and music.
The new beaded galloons for millinery
uses are in open designs, and spangles
and tinsel cords are often combined with
the beads.
Young women of Waterbury, Conn,
have organized a pedestrian club, and
they take a walk of several miles each
morning.
Goose quill feathers are used on the
sides of round hats and are stylish trim
ming. The only other addition is the
velvet band.
Coats of fine, smooth cloth are usually
made single breasted, but double breasted
fronts are seen upon garments of rough
Scotch tweed.
Girdles made of passemeuterie links,
ropes of beads or of fur, particularly seal
skin, are likely to rival those of silver
now so extensively worn.
The crowns of the newest bonnets are
longer than of late, and are not indent-
I'd at the ends. Many have long pointed
poke fronts, filled in with a slight face
Mrs. Moore, ''the sweet singer of
is now a veritab.e woman Of
ettcrs, being in charge of post office in
he Peninsular District of that State.
She is an intelligent woman of middle
&c.
Beads will again be used as a garni-
ure for bonnets. Gallons and passe-
nentcries in fine jets, and also in all |
olors, are placed fiat along the brim and |
rown in rows, or else in the space be- |
ween.
Revers of the dress material are seen
pom many of the new cloth costumes,
nd these are partly covered with silk or I
elvet, the dress goods extending beyond |
he silk and being stitched in rows or
ecorated with narrow braid.
The late Mrs. Anna Paul Hendricks of |
fadison, Iowa, was the wife of the first
Governor of that State. He was at one
Ime United States Senator, and she rode
D Washington on horseback with him
nd sat by his side in Congress-
According to Partisan fashion rules,
he favorite flower of the owner should
ways decorate her handkerchief.
Widows should only use lilac muslin
with dark blue scabious BIOS
emblem of a mourning bride.
For winter house dresses or for street
year under very long cloaks, cloth or
amel's hair will be made up with a
ound waist and single skirt, the latter
aving a deep border of fur, which is
hosen to match the color of the mate
ial
Long, straight polonaises will be a fea-
ure of the winter street costumes made
f heavy fabrics. These are cut very
ull, with fiat plaits behind, are not
aught up on the hips, and slope away
oward the sides to show the rich mate
ial of the skirt beneath.
Tailor-made jackets are made of fine
orkscrew diagonals or Motions, and very
laborately braided with the same color
S the cloth, or in mixed braids, or with
inset intermiXed with the prevailing
olor. Gold braid or cord is sometimes
Ised upon vests or revers.
Mrs. L. F. Badly, of California, who
S member of the Woman's Silk Culture
Association of the United Stotes, is
bout to establish colony of silk cul-
wrists in Maryland. A tract of 100
ores near Odenton will be divided
mong ten colonists, and by next spring
pring it is expected that the experiment
will be under way.